by Joe Herzog, AIA and Alison F. Rainey, AIAThis isn’t your parents’ downtown Phoenix anymore. Until the 1950s, residential neighborhoods flanked the downtown core where citizens flocked for work, shopping, dining, civic and other services. However, by the end of the...
by Scott SteffesWalking into Donor Network of Arizona’s (DNA) office today is a breath of fresh air. The light-filled office is colorful and lively, blending texture and form. The office is in constant motion and the mission is seamlessly expressed throughout the...
by Jennifer AliberIt might be tempting to think of hospitals and large medical centers as indestructible entities that once built stay built and can be ignored. While that is probably more or less true of the structural system, almost everything else that has been...
by Luke Voiland, AIAA thorny issue shaping the current public health crisis is broad access to COVID-19 testing. If we could conduct wide-scale testing, we would be able to pinpoint the carriers and contain the spread of the infection. Yet testing has not been keeping...
by Luke Voiland, AIAAs the corona virus sweeps across our nation, it has emptied campuses and disrupted operations. And as faculty and administrators adapt to a remote learning model, many are asking what can be done with the physical campus buildings that are now...
by Alison F. Rainey, AIAAs designers in the higher education space, we have seen online learning grow at a gradual pace over the past decade. Yet, since the COVID-19 outbreak, many institutions have had to abruptly move all their courses online. Our clients say...
by Arlinda ShtuniThese days people are flocking to Phoenix, a gravitational center of urban activity and the fastest growing city in America. Teeming with entrepreneurial energy and economic development, it is expanding both outward and upward. Students and...
By Arlinda ShtuniIn her seminal “A Room of One’s Own” Virginia Woolf wrote: “A writer needs money to provide her with the time, and she needs room to provide her with the space.” Envisioning Harvard University’s new Creative Writing Center gave us the rare pleasure of...
by Amanda VigneauMakerspaces are everywhere. They are popping up in schools, community centers, libraries; emerging as hubs for experimentation, learning and cross disciplinary inquiry. As we envision these spaces, we often ask: What makes a makerspace successful? And...
For more than 30 years, we have partnered with Yale New Haven Health (YNHH) to support their strategic vision and evolving medical practice. Our design thinking has guided their transformation from a single academic medical center into a system of campuses and...
by Sonja BochartWhat makes the spaces we envision indelible, serene, restorative—places where people and communities thrive? Biophilia—our intrinsic human connection with the natural world—continues to guide our design thinking and process at Shepley Bulfinch. We are...
by Joel PettigrewAn evolution has taken place in higher education over the last decade. Today’s campuses have come a long way from the narrowly focused academic institutions of yore. They are not just places where one goes to study, but dynamic microcosms of activity...